The Clara Barton Trail

Historical marker location:

5801 Oxford Road, Glen Echo, Maryland

( Marker can be reached from Oxford Road west of MacArthur Boulevard, on the left when traveling south.)

Clara Barton National Historic Site.

Maryland was once a center of the slave trade: Maryland was one of the thirteen colonies that allowed slavery, and by the mid-18th century, it had become a major center of the domestic slave trade. Maryland slave traders sold enslaved people to plantation owners in other southern colonies and to the Caribbean.